Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-22

! hut ambition and revenge, an that IS an
1 other thing. / would kill them allIf they
stood in my way, all except Bessie. nWai
breaks out, who will hold up q hand tC
helm the syerdomde Engelsmann? They
would all be afraid. And it is not my
fault. Can Ihelp it if | love that woRan'
Can / help it If my blood dries up WIT
longing for her, and if i lie awake hour oy
bour of nights, az, and weep, Frani
Muller, who saw the murdered bodies o
nv father and my mother and shed no teal
-because she hates me and will not looI
~favorably upon me?
ooh. woman! woman! They talk o.
ambition and Of avaIice, D OF selt-preser
walton as the keys of character ant action
but what force is there to move us X {
woman? A little thing, a weak, fragile
thing-a toy from which the rain will Wast
the paint and of which the rust will stoI
the working, and yet a thing that car
shake the world and pour ont blood hk'
water, and bring down sorrow like rain
So! l stand by the bowlder. A touch anc
it will 90 crashing down the mountain
side so that the world hears 1t. Shall
send il? It is all one to me. Let Bessie
and ON Silas Judge. i would slaughter
every Englishman in the Transvaal to galr
Bessie-ay! and every Boer too, and throw
all the natives in" and he laughed aloud
and struck the great black horse, making
it plunge and caper calamity.
''And then" he went on, giving his am
bition wing, "when I have got Bessie anc
we have kicked all these E~nglshmen out
of the land, in q very few years shall rule
this country; and what next? Why, ther
I will stir up the Dutch feeling in Nata
and in the old colony, and we will push
the Englishmen back into the sea, make
clean sweep of the natives, only keeplnt
enough for servants, and have a united
South Africa, like that poor silly mar
Burgers used to pirate of, butdid not know
how to bring about. A united Outer
South Africa, and Frank Muller to 1T
Well, such things have been, and may bt
again. Give me forty years OF life anc
strength, and we shall see"
Just then he reached the veranda OF thu
house, and, dismissing his secret ambition!
from his mind, Frank Muller dismOunteC
and entered. In the sitting-roOm he tounC
Silas Croft reading a newspaper.
GOOD. day, On Silas," he said, extend
ing his hand. ,
"Good-day, Meinheer Frank Muller
replied the old man, cOldly, for John hat
told him of the incident at the shooting
party which had so nearly ended fatally
and though he had made no remark he hat
formed his own conclusions.
''What are you reading in the EOikstem
ON Silas-abOut the Bezuidenhout AFFAIR."
mo; what was that"
at was that the volk are rising agains
you English, that is all. The sheriff seize'
BezuidenhOut's wagon in execution q
taxes, and put it up to sale at Potchefst
room. But the volk kicked the a%uctionee
off the wogon and hunted him round tn
town; and now Governor LanyOn Is e
ing Raaf down with power to swear II
special cOnstables and enforce the law q
PotchefstroOm. He might as we'll try t
stop a river by throwing stones. Let m
see, the big meeting at Paarde kraal wa
to have been on the fifteenth of December
now il is to he on the eighth, and then W
shall see il it will he peace or war"
peace or war;" answered the old man
testify. That has been the cry for years
How many big meetings have there bee
since ShepStOne annexed the country? Six
| think. Aud what has come of it all
Just nothing but talk. Aud what ca
come of it? Suppose the Beers did fight
what would the end of it he? They wOul
be beaten, and a lot of people would b
killed, and that would be the end OF II
: You don't suppose that England woul
give in to a handful of Beers, do you
! What did General WOlseley say the Othe
day at the dinner at POtchefStrOOm? Why
that the country wOuld never be given up
because no government, Conservative
Liberal. or Radical, would dare to do sue
"A thing. And now thus new GladstOn
government, has telegraphed the sam
thing, so what is the use Of all the talkan
chlldishness? Tell me that, Frank MuI
ler."
E Muller laughed rs he answered, "lO
are all very simple people, yOu English
Don't you know that q government is Ink
5 a oma who cries No, no, no. and kisse
2 YOU all the time? II there is noise enough
your British government will eat its word
I and give WOlseley and ShepStOne an
! Bartle Frere and LanyOn, and all of then
( the lie. This is Il bigger business than yO
5 think for, ON Silas. OF cOuse all thes
meetings and talk are got up. The PEI
pie are angry because of the English wa
? of dealing with the natives, and becaus
J they have to pay taxes; and they think
| now that you English have paid the
) debts and smashed up Sikukuni and Cett
: wayo they would like to have the Ian
/ back. They were glad enough for you I
5 take il at first; now it is another mattel
: But still that is not much. II they wei
, left to themselves nothing would come
it except talk, for many of them are yer
glad that the land should be English. Blu
; the men who pull the strings are down i
the Cape. They want to drive every Ens
= lishman out of South Africa. When SheI
: stone annexed the Transvaal he turned th
3 scale against the Dutch element and broE
! up the plans they have beer laying fC
years to make a big anti English republi
: of the whole country. Ifthe Transyaal II
. mains English there's an end Of their hops
for only the Free State remains, and thi
is hemmed in. That is why they are s
angry, and that is why their tools are sti
e ring the people up. They mean TO max
e them fight now and l think that they wi
! succeed. If the Beers win the day the
l will declare themselves; if not, you wi
e hear nothing Of them, and the Beers wi
bear the brunt of it. They are very cul
! ming people, the Cape patriots, , but the
look well after themselves"
e Silas Croft looked troubled and made I
s answer, and Frank Muller rose and stare
e out of the window.
CHAPTER. NH.
o FRANK MULLER SHOWS HIS HAND
Presently Muller turned round. II
e You know why have told you this, o
G SilaS2" he asked.
d 'No."
"Because / want you TO understand tn
y you and all the Englishmen in this COUNT
d are in a very dangerous position. The w
is a coming, and whether It goes for W
; or against you, yop must suffer. u